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Friday, October 26, 2007

SATURDAY 29TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME

OCTOBER 27, 2007SATURDAY 29TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME - YEAR I

ROMANS 8:1-11Brothers and sisters: Now there is no condemnation for those who arein Christ Jesus. For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesushas freed you from the law of sin and death. For what the law,weakened by the flesh, was powerless to do, this God has done: bysending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for the sakeof sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, so that the righteous decreeof the law might be fulfilled in us, who live not according to theflesh but according to the spirit. For those who live according tothe flesh are concerned with the things of the flesh, but those wholive according to the spirit with the things of the spirit. Theconcern of the flesh is death, but the concern of the spirit is lifeand peace. For the concern of the flesh is hostility toward God; itdoes not submit to the law of God, nor can it; and those who are inthe flesh cannot please God. But you are not in the flesh; on thecontrary, you are in the spirit, if only the Spirit of God dwells inyou. Whoever does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong tohim. But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because ofsin, the spirit is alive because of righteousness. If the Spirit ofthe one who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, the one whoraised Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodiesalso, through his Spirit that dwells in you.

LUKE 13:1-9Some people told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate hadmingled with the blood of their sacrifices. He said to them inreply, "Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in thisway they were greater sinners than all other Galileans? By no means!But I tell you, if you do not repent, you will all perish as theydid! Or those eighteen people who were killed when the tower atSiloam fell on them- do you think they were more guilty thaneveryone else who lived in Jerusalem? By no means! But I tell you, ifyou do not repent, you will all perish as they did!" And he toldthem this parable: "There once was a person who had a fig treeplanted in his orchard, and when he came in search of fruit on itbut found none, he said to the gardener, `For three years now I havecome in search of fruit on this fig tree but have found none. So cutit down. Why should it exhaust the soil?' He said to him inreply, `Sir, leave it for this year also, and I shall cultivate theground around it and fertilize it; it may bear fruit in the future.If not you can cut it down.'"

REFLECTIONAt some point in our lives, many of us were like the fig tree. We,too, were in danger of being rejected as useless. But in his mercy,God took pity on us. We were given another chance. Today's Gospel,therefore, calls forth from us deep gratitude to God for the secondchance he has given us. It also calls for a deep determination onour part to make the most of our second chance.

How shall we act? Shall it be with the same spiritual laziness? Godwill help us but he will not force us into heaven. We need to changeour ways. We need to accept the loving help of God. We need toproduce the fruit of good deeds in repentance, humility and love.

It is never too late to begin to change our lives for the better.Let us not disappoint Jesus who allowed himself to be cut down togive us a second chance to redeem ourselves.

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